delve deep into house races. we're going to have some virtual aspects we can do in this. it's important this studio is here. this is the boiler room. this is where our election's director and his team crunch all the numbers. all of this is coming out of here. all the projections will be made out of this room. that's why it is good that we're all connected in this way. i've got my ipad. we have good ways to tell you the story of election 2010. let's get to the races now, less than 24 hours from election day. it is the battle for control. we have the latest numbers from the nbc news "wall street journal" poll, taking the temperature of the voters. the poll confirm the democrats' worse fears. they trail republicans by six points among likely voters. when voters were asked what would it be like?

40% said it would be a good thing. 34% said it would be a bad thing. four years ago democrats led on the good thing number. it tells you a lot. people are seeing an advantage for changing control of congress. next, the president's approval rate, 45%. 50% disapprove. nancy pelosi, only 24% positive view. 60% have a negative view of nancy pelosi. she's been the punching bag in these campaigns for coast to coast. more so than the president. you're going to have a lot of talk about president obama, whether this is a referendum on him or his national agenda. this is a referendum on congress, congressional democrats and speaker nancy pelosi is the leader of the team. this is expected to be the third straight change election in 2006. democrats won control of congress. two years later democrats won the house.

this year they're poised to take back control of the house. in order to do that they need to win 39 seats. in the senate they face a tougher task to winning ten seats. i'm going to take you through this path to ten. we're going to start with the four of the ten they had here north dakota, indiana, arkansas and wisconsin. those four, republicans and democrats admit are probably all going republican come tomorrow night. the next three are the seats that republicans believe and democrats that if they have a breeze at their back, not just a full tsunami, they have that at their back, then they will win these states in yellow. pennsylvania, illinois and colorado. that gives them seven. so where do they get the next three? that's the states in red. they have to win three of these four. nevada, that's a 50/50 coin flip race. we'll see. west virginia is a race that democrats are feeling better about today than they did last

week. but republican tracking believes they've caught up. this is a red state on the map and literally, but a very popular governor. then the last two here on the west coast, washington state and california. in california it looks like democrats have pulled away just slightly. jerry brown further ahead of meg whitman than barbara boxer is of whitman. this is a race that a lot of folks could take us a days to call. i didn't mention alaska here. who knows. maybe thanksgiving we could be wondering about when we are going to call alaska. now i want to go to the house here. this is a good way to look at the house. we told you they need 39 seats. here's a couple numbers to keep in mind. the republicans win 50, 60, 70 seats. some people believe it's more likely they get to 60 than not to get to 50 or something like that. there are 49 democrats holding

seats that john mccain carried every barack obama. 49. republicans only need 39 to get control. republicans tell me they've been playing on republican turf. they're playing an away game. what is this election about? it got nationalized. all politics is national this year. there are 61 democrats in competitive race who is voted both for the president's health care plan and for cap and trade and those two issues more than any other have been use d plus the bailout, plus the stimulus. both have been used as a pinata on democrats. how many of those 61 end up losing? that will tell us how big this wave is at this point. democrats privately tell you they expect to lose 40 to 50 seats. but they are hoping that a democratic turnout holds down their losses. one other perspective to keep in mind. if republicans win 70 house

seats, that's the upper number you hear some analysts predicting, they will still have a smaller majority than the democrats have right now. republicans would need to pick up 78 seats in order to have the equal majority that democrats enjoy in the house right now. obviously we told you republicans need ten seats in the house. we'll delve into governors later on. we'll do that throughout the next 24, frankly 48 hours. there's going to be at least 30 new governors. one state where we're going to see a new governor is our next stop. it's pennsylvania. a state where everyone knows someone someone still out of work. 9% unemployment. ron allen picks things up from philadelphia where for democrats it's game on. ron? >> reporter: indeed, chuck. thanks very much. you're going to have a late night there. hope you have a cot to sleep on at 30 rock. here we are at independence in the city of brotherly love where the declaration of independence

and the constitution were both written. the republicans expect to win very big here in pennsylvania. they expect to win a senate seat and the governorship from the democrats. let's look at the candidates for the senate. on the democratic side you have congressman joe sestak, a two-term congressman now, a retired navy admiral with a distinguished military record. on the other side, pat toomey, a former congressman, three terms, a businessman, a conservative, a member of the tea party, his supporters say before the tea party was even created. toomey has been leading consistently in all the polls. there's a poll out this morning that gives him a five-point lead outside of the margin for error. and that's been consistent through the fall where the polls have been. where the polls have been. if you look inside the poll, you will see that independents are falling for toomey, which is another good sign for him. less government, less taxes and more jobs. today both candidates are out making their final arguments.

here's some of what they had to say. >> this is about an independent representative for pennsylvania. so congressman toomey, a lobbyist for wall street special interest group, actually someone who wants to eliminate taxes for corporations. >> all the pieces come together in an explosion of growth and new job creation. that's the future that awaits us when we get back on the right path. >> reporter: back on the right track. that's what toomey has been saying. right track, wrong track, where do you want to be? we're joined by tom fitzgerald, the political writer for the philadelphia inquirer. i have the headline in the newspaper here today. race to the wire is how tom called it. i remember tom from the old hillary clinton bus. much different time now. i don't sense a lot of excitement on the democratic

side. certainly it's not a presidential race. but are the democrats going to rally around joe sestak? >> they're trying really hard. they have to move mountains. they're out with visits by president obama and mrs. obama tonight. they have people out in the neighborhoods. it will be really hard to do, though. especially -- well, they're using fear as has been seen in other races. christine o'donnell down in delaware really helped them close it. >> but this is what could be your faith. >> this could be your faith. the tea party. and they're trying to say this guy is just like sharron angle, just like christine o'donnell. >> the race has been nationalized to the detriment of the democrats. i was out in west philly and i was struck by the fact most people don't know who he is. he, of course, is not the democrats' preferred candidate. that was arlen specter in the primary. why is pat toomey such a

formidable candidate in pennsylvania? >> well, he actually meets the times. people are freaked out about the economy. he's an original supply cidside. he's hardcore on the deficit. he's run a disciplined campaign and has managed to skate away from attempts to point out some of his more right-wing positions like privatizing social security and the like. >> discipline is a code word for boring to some extent. >> yeah, he is sort of like your next door neighbor. he's very reasonable. he's not going to wanting to appeal the 17th amendment or anything. >> reporter: the point is you have a low key race here, but there's a lot at stake. the democrats have a 1.2 million voter registration edge. obama won by 10 points.

they should be out way in front, shouldn't they? >> it would seem so. there's just not that excitement level at this point. and they need to bump up the democratic turnout here in the city especially to get some of that 1.2 million on their side. >> we'll see what happens. >> it would be very difficult. >> and they're bringing in michelle obama to the university of pennsylvania just up the road. a distinguished university that i know a little bit about, i should add. my alma mater. i have to throw that in. we're now going to alaska to my colleague kristen welker. it looks like there's a write-in candidate, the tea party, you have everything up there. >> reporter: a little bit of everything, ron. that's exactly right. things are really heating up here in alaska as this three-way race is tightening. joe miller is really struggling in his bid to unseat republican candidate lisa murkowski who is running as a write-in. he actually beat her in the gop

primary. she decided to defy her party and run as a write-in candidate, and polls show her now some of them with a slight lead, but don't count out democrat scott mcadams. if the republican vote is split here, he could just eke out a victory. now this race took an incredible turn over the weekend. that's when a local tv news crew was captured on tape joking about the possibility that a registered sex offender could show up at a campaign event for joe miller. his camp charged the station with trying to fabricate a negative story about him. the tv news station denied those allegations. but sarah palin wasted no time jumping into the fray, lashing out at the media, in fact, on her twitter account she called the media, and i'm quoting here, corrupt bastards. she then repeated the comments on national tv. >> that's sick. those are corrupt bastards, chris. that's what is wrong with the

media today, when they have their chosen one. it is corrupt. it is frustrating. it is why americans are saying no more. enough is enough. >> certainly fighting words there. to help us sort it all out now, michael carrie, a political analyst and columnist with the anchorage daily news. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for inviting us. >> absolutely. can sarah palin be a game changer? >> not in alaska. people have made up their minds about sarah palin. she hah still has her fans. but a large number of people have stopped listening to her and moved on. she can fire up the miller voters and get them enthusiastic. >> is part of the reason she entered this race because she does have an adversarial relationship with lisa murkowski? >> yes, and that was slow to evolve at first senator murkowski and palin tried to work together, understanding that sarah palin defeated

governor murkowski's father frank to become governor. that's how she became governor. that part was difficult. >> now lisa murkowski is doing better in the polls. she's still fighting an uphill battle. the last time somebody won a senate seat with a write-in candidacy was in 1954 when strom thurman did it. why is it so difficult to be a write-in candidate? >> she had a million and a half dollars, which is a lot of money around here. the disadvantages are you have to go and spell some symbolance of murkowski correctly on the ballot. it's not the people are stupid or uninformed or don't care. if you have 100,000 people, some number of thousand are going to forget how to do this completely or just not do it. >> because this is a write-in candidacy, it's possible we could be here well past election day. is that correct? >> yeah, there will be three

groups on election night. if the write-in vote is bigger, we may have a murkowski victor. if it's less, then she'll lose. >> michael carey, thank you for joining us. and the midterm relay race runs on. next stop, very exciting. another very heated three-way race down in the sunshine state. florida. >> standby on that. we're coming up to you next in miami. ♪ ♪ [ growls ] ♪ ♪ [ polar bear grunting ] [ growls ] [ male announcer ] introducing the 100% electric nissan leaf.

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>> i'm ron mott in miami. it is always supposed to be sunny here, but not today. we've had a day of wild and wacky weather, and perhaps that's the best way to describe the politics we've seen in the two key statewide races over the past week or so. we're going to start talking about the senate race. it's a tight three-way race for the united states senate. it is led at the current time by tea-party backed republican marco rubio. rubio holding 45% voter support at this point. 14 points, i should say. 14 points behind him is governor charlie crist running as an independent at 31%. and then kendrick meek at 18%. one thing this race has brought out is to get it back down to a two-person race. den drik meek said he was approached to get out of the race. he was offer ad christian cross. he kindly declined the things

and he's going to be fired up in orl do. we're going to bring in one of our guests to talk about this. talk about this three-way race. how different would the dynamics of this race had been stayed out and left this a democrat versus republican race? >> yeah, this would have been a much different race, with a three-person race you don't need a majority. and so marco rubio was able to continue his very conservative republican message because he basic basically needed to get a good portion of the independents. which he did. kendrick, meek and chris have been splitting the democratic vote and allowed rubio to surge ahead. >> let's turn to the race for the governor's office here in florida. it is a very tight race. let's show you the latest numbers on this one just out today. the democratic alex sink holding the 44%.

rick scott at 43%. rick scott has a lot of negatives based on his prior career as an executive with a hospital corporation that paid a record medicare fraud fine. he's spent a lot of his own money, yet he's still straling in the race. had this been a regular year, would he have a shot with his negatives? >> i think that's a good question. he definitely does have a lot of baggage and the fact that he's as close as he is shows how people are hungry for something different, an outsider, a fresh face and most likely a republican, which is the way the electorate is leaning now. >> you cover politics here. the early voting turnout has been pretty high. what is that for the future tomorrow, you think? >> it means that for democrats to do well they're going to have to have a blowout at the polls tomorrow. and, you know, it's unclear whether they're going to get that in a year where democrats are feeling, you know, pretty

demoralized as a whole. >> you ready for a long night tomorrow? >> yes, yes. >> long night ahead here in florida and all over the united states. coming up next, we've heard from the politicians. now it's time to hear from you, the voters. >> janet shamlian standing by in florida.

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hi, everybody. good afternoon. i'm thomas roberts at msnbc headquarters in new york. we're going to pick up with the next leg of our midterm relay, but first we can't talk about the vote without touching on the important role that you, the voter play. mara, you have the important task of watching out for any type of irregularly tar is across the country. >> we'll keep an eye on potential problems at the polls. that starts with you, the viewers. you can reach us at electionday at msnbc.com. you can also reach us online.

we have a form that you can fill out. send us a message. and on twitter. tweet us with the tag 2010 our team will be verifying all of our tips by contacting sec stairs of states across the country and judges of elections at each polling place doing everything in our power to confirm your reports of voting irregularities. but beyond potential problems at the poll, we want to hear about your voting experience. are lines long? did you have trouble with voting machines? send us your information and we'll fully vet all the tips. >> it's never been easier to be boastful about your experience. >> thank you. >> it has been a long and gruelling campaign season. no one knows that better than president obama. from hopes of change to the challenges of health care and the economy, many americans are still desperate for the answers.

we have a look at the rocky road to 2012. >> in the beginning, anything seemed possible. hope, change, let's face it, there was obama mania. and while it's nice to make history. >> justice elena kagan. justice sonia sotomayor. >> welcome to the economic crisis. >> the unemployment rate remains at 10%. >> welcome to the health care crisis. [ booing ] >> the riot heard around the world. >> president obama, are you listening? >> there's fear. >> the president says he's a christian. i take him at his word. >> there's anger. >> you don't trust me? >> there's frustration. >> i'm not a racist. i'm not a moron.

i'm a mother. a wife. a nice person who pays taxes. too many taxes. >> at first the white house doesn't get it. >> they still aren't talking about jobs. >> but they get it. >> the independent voice of massachusetts has spoken. >> and that's just the beginning. >> america is at a crossroads. >> watch out, democrats. watch out, republicans. >> do you love your freedom! >> good morning. palin's power. >> and whether or not she's really running. >> you don't want to mess with the mama grizzlies. >> a force to be reckon with. >> how is that hopey-changey stuff working out for you. >> for the first time in the obama presidency a majority say we're headed in the wrong direction. >> 56%. >> 68% believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. >> there's an energy gap. >> i'm exhausted. >> there will be a turnout gap? >> wanted, women democrats. >> the white house is worried.

especially with that view from her window. >> we can see 2012 from our house. >> but first, let's get through 2010. >> some of you need to man up. >> man up and do what you're asking other people to do. >> when the going gets tough, bring back elvis. >> president bill clinton. >> whatever happened to hope? >> if i sound angry it's because i'm angry. >> whatever happened to change? >> you don't want to use that phrase, dude. >> whatever happened to a new kind of politics. >> they talk about me like a dog. >> we can havow before us, mini >> and if the campaign wasn't wild enough, leave it to one man to answer the question why. >> rent is too damn high.

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this is her third run for the senate. she's supported by the tea party. where does the race stand? well the latest poll show chris coons with a double digit lead. the poll you'ring at now with a 21% lead, though there is a more recent poll with a smaller sampling that shows chris coons with a lead of only 10%. so what is happening in these final hours today? well, we're in downtown wilmington. and we're expecting in a couple of hours vice president joe biden will be here stumping for chris coons. this is vice president biden's senate seat that he vacates when he became vice president. so he will be rallying in the ninth hour with chris coons. as for christine o'donnell, her campaign continues to make news. she made a huge media by 30-minute commercials that she wanted to air today tow take directly to the viewers and to

the voters in this area. this is something like a page out of barack obama's 2008 campaign book. well, there's been a development. she's been tweeting that the public access station has not been airing those 30-minute commercials for her. within the last few minutes the television station responded and said that she did not deliver the commercials on time, but they will be airing them this afternoon. here's a clip from one of those commercials. >> many delaware small business owners have expressed to me their concern that if these tax increases come, they'll be forced to shut their doors. this is what's happening to the family-owned businesses that give delaware a vibrant personality and make delaware so unique. >> i want to bring in ginger gibson.

she's been covering this story from the start. we've all been following your coverage. so what's going on here in delaware? >> well, this has been an unusual election season for delaware. normally a state of retail politics, shaking hands, discourse between the candidates it's been in "saturday night live" spoofs and appearances on fox news. >> you said it's usually pretty civil here. this year it's not. >> they had both candidates back and forth a lot more. >> christine o'donnell says she disputes the polls. she says she's surging and it's not a double-digit lead. what do you see? >> it's still close here. she is gaining support. she has support in the two southern counties of delaware. it's really going to come down to to who turns out on election day. >> is a big turnout expected? >> we had historic turnouts in 2008. expect a lot of people to be excited. a lot of people lining up today.

>> ginger gibson, thanks so much. great coverage. we loved watching in. in a hypothetical matchup. political observers saying if chris coons had faced representative mike castle, he would be the favorite at this point. interesting news out of delaware. i want to tell you to miguel all the way out in sunny california. >> reporter: janet, good afternoon. we have our own close tight senate race here in california, although the polls differ a bit, all the polls seem to show the race is still relatively tight. let's talk about the senate candidates. we have three-time incumbent barbara boxer, a veteran of politics. she's up against carly foiorina. barbara boxer is bb described as

a far lest liberal. a san francisco liberal backed by the president while fiorina is described as a conservative backed by sarah palin. political pundits say fiorina will need all the swing voters to vote for her in order to win on the ballot tomorrow. let's look at this latest poll numbers. a recent field poll shows barbara boxer has an eight point advantage over her opponent. over the last few days the candidates have been going up and down the state talking specifically about jobs. here's what the candidates said about each other a short time ago. >> she has voted for trillions of dollars in increased taxes. trillions in increased spending. she always favors more regulation over less. she believes that the government

creates jobs. >> my opponent wants to take us right back to those policies. the same old wall street mentality that transform ad thriving economy into the great recession. >> now this gubernatorial race has been a contentious one as well. let's talk about the two candidates there. you have the former governor and the current attorney general, jerry brown, he's up against the former ceo of ebay, meg whitman, who is a billionaire. let's look at the latest poll numbers there. it shows the governor's race is very tight. brown has a good lead. this is a race where the candidates have spent millions of dollars, specifically meg whitman has spent $160 million in a race that's gotten cold. let's bring in our good friend. tell us about this race in particular, the governor's race is getting nasty on the air

waves. >> getting? from day one, miguel, it's been very nasty on the air waves. she's been on longer and has been nastier longer. i think it's coming back to haunt her. >> this race was neck and neck a few weeks ago. >> yes, it was. >> it surprised me, but you will recall that there was an allegation that meg whitman had had an illegal housekeeper, this housekeeper said that she was ill treated by meg whitman, her attorney gloria alred produced evidence that she had hired and fired this illegal nanny. and meg whitman and her campaign didn't handle it very well. just sort of, that's it. it's over. and she lost treasured latino voters.

she lost women voters. and she did lose the independents, too. that's when you begin to see her going downwards in the polls. >> tell me about that and what what kari fiorina needs to win the race. >> the irony of the election could be, miguel, is meg whitman's get out the vote operation may not be able to save meg whitman, but carly fiorina voters may be pulled out. they may be helpful to her. it's a tight race. neither candidate is well liked by californians. but it appears to me that barbara boxer's advertising, and we always come back to those ads, it's california. big and expensive. they resonate more with voters. fiorina was the head of hp, she's attacking her for laying people off. in this state with the high

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>> welcome back to msnbc's coverage of the 2010 elections. welcome to beautiful kentucky on a beautiful day here in fountain park in the center of town. a pretty place to be during a campaign that has been anything but pretty throughout the election season here as rand paul is essentially in a grudge match with mr. conway running for the democrats. at this point in time he seems to be about seven points behind according to the most recent

polling. we ran into mr. conway at the airport here in bowling green as he swept in as part of his final push across the state of kentucky and asked him what the voters were wanting from him, considering that he was falling behind. and he essentially said to us, well, it's not really a matter of being democrat or republican. he had the feeling that the voters were angry with politicians in general. here's what he had to say. >> i think they're dissatisfied with republicans and with democrats both. i know they're concerned about where we're headed. i think they want people focused on job creation. with the choices, it's still down to jack con way versus rand paul, we win. if people vote between the two candidates on the ballot, they're going to win.

>> rand paul become a national figure when he took over the race for the senate. rand paul who has been just as guilty as throwing mud as the other guy in the race. we heard all about the buddha situation. that was the piece of mud thrown in his direction. we've nationally scene the incident that happened when the moveon.org person was knocked down and someone stepped onto her neck. which could be described as nasty. but all the sudden the winding down of this campaign, mr. paul himself has come up with perhaps a kinder, gentler sort of ad campaign portraying him as a family man for kentucky. >> i'm always amazed at rand's boundless energy. we've been married for 20 years and he's always worked hard to make a difference. reshaping the lives of patients he serves, raising our three

boys. rand believes that america's brightest days are ahead, but only if the promise of freedom and opportunity is there for future generations. >> and joining me now, andy dennis of the daily news newspaper here in bowling green. the bottom line is what are the people going to be voting for? are they voting for rand paul, or are they, as john conway say, the electorate is essentially angry with both parties? >> i think a little bit of both. i think essentially voters are angry with everyone. you had deficit spending during the republican administration. you had very much deficit spending right now, and i think people are just looking for someone to -- looking for a hero. someone to kind of fix things. that may come into play in a big way. >> your paper has supported rand paul. are you saying he's the guy that is going to be able to do this? >> well, he has established

himself as a conservative in the race, i think. he shows himself as someone who is conservative and aiming towards someone trying to attack the deficit. >> how about that he logs himself as the outsider. he isn't tainted by either side. >> he comes for a family that is political, but he's not an inside politician, so to speak. that may play to his advantage. >> thank you very much, it's going to be a busy, perhaps exciting night in kentucky. coming up in a few moments we're going to go all the way out to las vegas, live in las vegas. where ed schulz is going to discuss the race between harry reid and sharron angle and going to the other stuff on election day tomorrow. stay with us. you can take care of virtually all your important legal matters in just minutes. now it's quicker and easier for you to start your business... protect your family...

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welcome back to our coast to coast coverage this hour on msnbc, the place for politics. i'm ed shultz. just arriving here in las vegas, nevada, where it is the key race for senate majority leader harry reid and i think a bellwether race for the democrats. can harry reid hang on? this has been a magnificent campaign. so unique and so unusual and one for the archives. it's been one certainly interesting for the journalists to cover because one of the candidates has been terribly elusive. i did not see sharron angle at the airport. that's the only place someone in the media runs into the challenger of the senate majority leader. she was not at the airport today. when i did run into her at the airport last week, she did answer a couple questions. i find this race very interesting. it's a real contrast in styles and strategies when it comes to

winning the seat in the senate from nevada. first of all, the ground games for harry reid has been extraordinary. there's a real quiet confidence this afternoon coming out of the reid camp. they feel like they covered all their bases. the early voting outstanding for democrats. how that will play out in the end is only to be determined by the rural vote which is supposed to support sharron angle. as far as angle is concerned, she's poured in millions of dollars. we have never in the history of america seen such a financial effort to unseat a democratic leader such as harry reid. a lot of people are drawing parallels between tom daschle in south dakota back in 2004 and now here harry reid in 2010. there are differences. one of the differences was played out today. the first lady, michelle obama, was just here within the last hour and the final pitch to voters here in this state to save harry reid's seat. he called her the closer.

president obama has been out here several times. that's one thing that tom daschle did not have. he did not have the president. he did not have the first lady and of course he did not have the organized ground game that harry reid has. in many respects the reid camp looked back at the daschle camp and looked at infrastructure that may not have been done properly and safeguards put in place for the reid camp. it will come down to turnout and it will come down to the last 24-hour news cycle as to who can make the final pitch. harry reid is no stranger to close races. back in 1998 when he took on then congressman it was decided by 400 votes. last week we were told by many people that there's a big push to get out the vote because they think it could be with easily 1,000 votes. to put it this way, the democrats could save face, could

save disaster. they don't know if it will be high winds or a hurricane tomorrow but they do know that harry reid has led them to some very strong legislative victories such as health care reform which has been vilified by many people on the right. in his campaign he pushed home the fact that this health care bill will save lives to save this country $1.3 million. so are the voters so upset that they would put in sharron angle who in many respects has been a rogue candidate and maverick in many respects and one who has been bankrolled by corporate interests across america or will it be be harry reid, the longtime boxer? does he have one last swing in that punch to save his seat here in 2010. and to daschlize him, it won't happen. if sharron angle wins this it will be because she had big

corporate money behind her. tonight we'll do our show from here, las vegas, nevada. we'll have the whip on the air with us from illinois. the senator will be joining us, dick durbin and also we'll be talking more about this race here in nevada. that concludes this hour of coverage here on msnbc. we take you to the north, the south, the east, the west given you all points of views. it's going to be a nail biter tomorrow. very close. the experts are saying it will be a big day for the republicans. we'll see. we'll see you tonight at 6:00 eastern on "the ed show." up next is the dr show here on msnbc. back in the 80's, it was really tough for me and my family.

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